"I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage." — Maria Callas, American-Greek soprano, born 1923
"An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house." — Maria Callas, American-Greek soprano, born 1923
"I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must." — Maria Callas, American-Greek soprano, born 1923
"Art is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours." — Maria Callas, American-Greek soprano, born 1923
"90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness." — Cab Calloway, American jazz singer, born 1907
"What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't." — Cab Calloway, American jazz singer, born 1907
"I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine." — Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian, born 1954
"Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option." — James Cameron, Canadian director, born 1954
"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied." — Julia Margaret Cameron, British photographer, born 1815
"When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer." — Julia Margaret Cameron, British photographer, born 1815
"We must be willing to relinquish the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." — Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, born 1904
"Where you stumble is your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave, that was so dreaded, has become the center." — Joseph Campbell, American author, born 1904
"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe." — Joseph Campbell, American author, born 1904